According to some studies conducted in the United States in 2001; there is a positive relationship between organizational culture and the organizational leadership. Indeed, companies whose culture is dynamic would get a profit margin of 71% higher than companies whose culture is static. To obtain better results than the average, the leadership is necessary which would help the employees by boosting their morals and motivate them to work in groups efficiently to obtain the maximum benefits of cultural diversity. Cultural diversity can add value to the organization if their allocation is done properly. However, this allocation is the result of authoritative leadership and proper guidance.
Annotated Bibliography
The first paper selected for the annotated bibliography is a research paper formulated by Taormina (2008) under the title of “Interrelating leadership behaviors, organizational socialization, and organizational culture”. The purpose of the research was to look into the leadership theories regarding the organizational socialization and organizational culture. Similarly, within the context of the socialization, employees enthusiasm or lack of cooperation also considered. The research design of the study was designed via questionnaire; means the research was purely quantitative in nature. For the research purpose, questionnaire was distributed among 166 employees from a variety of different organizations, who were asked to evaluate their leader on different variables. The findings of the research revealed that leaders' behaviors founded to be more control-oriented in a bureaucratic culture, where as more flexible-oriented in the environment that encouraged innovation. Therefore, the practical implication of the research suggested that a need for more resilient leader behaviors required in certain organizational cultures that cause problems among in the employees in having free mode of socialization among them.
The second paper selected is written by Varney (2008) by the name of “Leadership learning: key ...